Sentence examples for written in captivity from inspiring English sources

Another major work from the war years was written in captivity.

The parents of a US hostage who is being held by Islamic State militants in Syria, have released a letter he has written in captivity.

They found ways to observe and imagine, even to write in captivity.

"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, adorns and cheers our way," 18th century playwright Oliver Goldsmith wrote in "The Captivity".

The family also released a letter that Mueller wrote while in captivity in 2014, BuzzFeed notes.

I first encountered the Jardin des Plantes (opened in 1626 as a garden for medicinal plants) in Rilke's poem "The Panther" (written in 1903), one of several that he wrote about animals in captivity, in which he describes the panther's gaze as being worn down by the bars of the cage: "His sight from ever gazing through the bars / has grown so blunt that it sees nothing more".

This reflects a curious and disparate genesis: the duo movements are reworkings of previous compositions; the solo clarinet movement was written as a gift for Akoka as they travelled together under German guard; the trio was written for friends in captivity before the concept of writing a quartet had even entered Messiaen's mind.

While in captivity he wrote in his diary, later published as a book, that he was glad the marines had held their fire and thus preserved the possibility of getting home.

"Depriving the victim of control over her own economic well-being is a despotic and confining element of domestic violence," she writes in Ending Domestic Violence Captivity: A Guide to Economic Freedom.

A letter by Henry Pringle, written while held in captivity at Carillon, restored his reputation by clarifying the French advantage following the second ambush; Rogers went on to rebuild his companies and serve in the Battle of Carillon in July 1758.

A friend of Foley's and his fellow captive in Libya, journalist Clare Morgana Gillis, wrote in a 2013 essay that captivity was "the state most violently opposite his nature".